Gertrude Himmel-farb, in Commentary (Apr. 1985), 165 East 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
For Lenin, Trotsky, and Mao, there was only one Karl Marx. But since the 1930s, when scholars unearthed Marx's early writings, many Western in- tellectuals have suggested that real Marxism has "a human face."
The new Marxism is based not on the materialistic Das Kapital(1867) but on Marx's earlier writings on alienation and other themes. Meanwhile, writes Himmelfarb, a City University historian,...